Columbia University professor Edward Said called Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a “deranged killer of Arabs.” Writing in the latest issue of the English-language Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram, Said also compared the current situation of the Palestinians to what European Jews experienced during the Holocaust.
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